For a change let’s start with a novel quote: "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." (Anne of Green Gables). We agree! What do you like most about autumn? Whatever it is, now it’s time to grab a warm drink to keep out the first chill and discover what we have been working on for you 👇
Calendar
- Recurring appointments now offer the ability to create exceptions, on which the appointment doesn't take place. Simply click on the date in the calendar, then use Delete to delete a single instance, or all appointments. Exceptions will be shown on the appointment page, and members will be notified. Tip: to change a recurring appointment on only one date, simply create an exception for that date, then create a single new appointment with the alternative time and date
- A bug has been fixed where the body text of appointments would not have been included in the iCal feed
- A bug has been fixed where all day appointments with no reminder set, would sent reminders at seemingly random intervals
- A bug has been fixed that in some cases would prevent searching for locations in appointments
- If you create a copy of an appointment, now all properties are copied, including start and end time
- Unpredictable results with using parameters start and end in the calendar URL are fixed
- A bug was fixed with responding to Appointment emails in Lotus Notes
Chat
- Chat export didn't correctly encode the title of the chat; this has been fixed
News
- Activity on news items or pages before the publication date is now hidden
- Some issues with the RSS import are fixed
- A bug has been fixed that could throw an unexpected system error when changing a news article
Startpage
- A layout bug has been changed when hiding items from the timeline on mobile devices
- A bug has been fixed where groups would be displayed multiple times in the preferences of the Activity widget
Groups & Items
- The group's creation date is now added to the group management page
- A bug has been fixed when moving an item, where sometimes incorrect folders would be shown
- A bug has been fixed where, when exporting a folder to a ZIP file, the setting of “Also download older versions of documents” would be ignored
- A bug has been fixed with inconsistent naming of files with identical names
- The Groups widget on the profile page now has the option to sort per category
- A download button has been added to the preview page of files
- An option has been added in the 'Activity mail' screen to (de)select all members at once
- A bug has been fixed where the group menu would not be shown on the definition page of a tag
- The page for selecting a related items had been improved with pagination. Before, large lists could make the page slow in the browser
- A bug has been fixed enabling the delete button, after selecting an item
- A bug has been fixed that could throw an unexpected system error, when viewing a task that is not linked to a task list
- A bug is fixed where the notification email that is send after someone submitted an anonymous survey, contained the name of the person who submit the survey
- The Groups / Managers page under Setup has improved performance
Miscellaneous
- The default mail adres mailer@viadesk.com is now renamed to noreply@viadesk.com
- The embed code for Microsoft Streams is now whitelisted, meaning you can easily add Microsoft Streams videos in your content
- The interface language can now be quickly changed from the bottom of the page (on desktop only)
- In forms, you can now see who approved or rejected a form
- A bug has been fixed that would stop importing members completely from an Excel sheet, if one of the email addresses would be invalid
- In the rich text editor it is now better possible to change the color of text on mobile devices
- Viadesk member export now happens in XLSX format instead of XLS
